Patches

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Fixes for crashes when installing some third-party packages using the Tools -> Package Manager dialog

Installation of a language pack now shows the correct product name in the About dialog

Note: Alpha 3 PPC Patch-1 requires a full installation of NeoOffice 2.0 Alpha PowerPC and will not install on any version of NeoOffice 1.x. Patch-1 includes all fixes and additions of previous patches.

Older Patches

2.0 Alpha 3 PPC Patch-0 (aka NeoOffice 2.0 Alpha 3) The new changes included in this patch are listed below:

Support for playing sound and sound tracks in movies

Fixed a number of issues in drag-and-drop behavior

Fixed some issues with icon drawing behavior

NeoOffice 2.0 now writes type codes for files like NeoOffice 1.x did

Additional smaller bugfixes

2.0 Alpha 2 PPC Patch-0 (aka NeoOffice 2.0 Alpha 2): The new changes included in this patch are listed below:

Improved memory usage in many documents

Fixed an issue that prevented printing or PDF export

Fixed an issue which caused symbols in equations to appear misplaced

2.0 Alpha PPC Patch-2: The new changes included in this patch are listed below:

Fixed an issue where new OOo 2.0-style palettes were unable to be docked

Fixed an issue where exporting to PDF would crash, hang, or fail to include images

Fixed a crash in OOo code when selecting the Package Manager

Fixed an issue where NeoOffice was unable to open files that had been locked in the Finder

Reverted the change to the UI font size since the default was too small and since this setting can be adjusted in the application preferences now

Improved memory usage in long Writer documents

2.0 Alpha PPC Patch-1: The new changes included in this patch are listed below:

Fixed an issue where italicizing a line of text would cause it to "stack" characters at the end of the line on top of each other

Added shortcuts to the database component to the NeoOffice menu and the Dock menu

Allowed double-click opening of NeoBase document in the Finder, and gave those documents an icon

Closing the last document with Cmd-W now closes the grey window

Fixed the UI font size

Fixed an issue where importing a NeoOffice 1.x profile would cause a "BASIC error" when saving a file

Fixed a memory leak

New Features in NeoOffice 2.0 Alpha

If you have not downloaded a release of NeoOffice since version 1.2, there are dozens of new features in NeoOffice 2.0 Alpha. Some of the most significant include: